Bug reports & end-user support for Akai's MPC Software 'controllers' including the new MPC Studio 2, the MPC Touch, MPC Renaissance & original MPC Studio and MPC StudioB lack.
By Jonespnice1 Sat Mar 16, 2013 8:08 pm
If you already like the tone/pitch of the sample then simply tune your hardware synths or VSTi synths. Here's what I do if tuning the sample doesn't work well for me:

1) find out what key the sampled song was in
2) try to find a part of the sample where there's a sustained sound
3) find the closest note on the keyboard that is closest to the sustained sample
4) playback the sustained sample and at the same time playback your note on the keyboard
5) now start adjusting the tune amount (on your master tune) on your synth in 10 cent increments until it sounds pretty close
6) then fine tune it to the exact position
7) now everything should be a match for whatever samples you playback from those samples.

note: coincidentally you could use this procedure to identify how much the sample needs to be adjusted if you choose to adjust the samples tuning instead of your synth's tuning.

Let me know if this works out for you.
By Obtainius Sun Mar 17, 2013 1:06 pm
Jonespnice1 wrote:If you already like the tone/pitch of the sample then simply tune your hardware synths or VSTi synths. Here's what I do if tuning the sample doesn't work well for me:

1) find out what key the sampled song was in
2) try to find a part of the sample where there's a sustained sound
3) find the closest note on the keyboard that is closest to the sustained sample
4) playback the sustained sample and at the same time playback your note on the keyboard
5) now start adjusting the tune amount (on your master tune) on your synth in 10 cent increments until it sounds pretty close
6) then fine tune it to the exact position
7) now everything should be a match for whatever samples you playback from those samples.

note: coincidentally you could use this procedure to identify how much the sample needs to be adjusted if you choose to adjust the samples tuning instead of your synth's tuning.

Let me know if this works out for you.


This works great for me to
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By pk1 Sun Mar 17, 2013 3:49 pm
i just put a tuner on the sample track it tellls me what keys are playng (ruffly)
or melodyne. i just pop it in the track mix, check out where my key sig is and strat playing the cord/keys relevant. there are a cple free tuners online simple and free.
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By pk1 Mon Mar 18, 2013 1:46 pm
if i understand your Q? i never mess with that cause i figured it ment were on the keyboard it was going to put for first sample. another words that note is relavent to where your first sample drops on the keyboard.
By Jonespnice1 Tue Mar 19, 2013 1:18 am
Hey lionKing, here is a video showing you how my process of tuning the keyboard to the samples. If anyone else has a different way of doing it please post a video so that we can learn more than one way of doing this.

By Jonespnice1 Wed Mar 20, 2013 1:52 am
lionking wrote:hey, thank you very much for the video :mrgreen:

when my song is ready i will show u ;)

greetz from austria


You're welcome, and I'm looking forward to hearing your song.